Course Description
In this 2-day course, students are provided with a functional understanding of how to deploy, test and maintain F5 SSL Orchestrator to optimize the SSL infrastructure, provide security devices with visibility of SSL/TLS encrypted traffic, and maximize efficient use of that existing security investment.
The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, and discussion about the importance of SSL visability, how F5 SSL Orchestrator supports policy-based management, steering of traffic flows to existing security devices and centralizes the SSL decrypt/encrypt function through multi-layered security, dynamic service chaining, topology selections and security policies.
Prerequisites
The following free web-based training courses, although optional, will be very helpful for any student with limited BIG-IP administration and configuration experience.
- Getting Started with BIG-IP web-based training
- Getting Started with SSL Orchestrator (SSLO) web-based training
The following general network technology knowledge and experience are recommended before attending any F5 Global Training Services instructor-led course:
- OSI model encapsulation
- Routing and switching
- Ethernet and ARP
- TCP/IP concepts
- IP addressing and subnetting
- NAT and private IP addressing
- Default gateway
The following course-specific knowledge and experience is suggested before attending this course:
- HTTP, HTTPS protocols
- TLS/SSL
Security services such as malware detection, data loss/leak prevention (DLP), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP)
Audience Profile
This course is intended for network administrators and Security Operations responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the F5 SSL Orchestrator system.
Learning Objectives
- Understand basic use cases for decryption and re-encryption of inbound and outbound SSL/TLS network traffic
- Create dynamic service chains of multiple security services
- Configure security policies to enable policy-based traffic steering
- Add SSL visibility to existing applications
- Deploy SSL Orchestrator configurations based on topology templates
- Troubleshoot an SSL Orchestrator deployment
Content Outline
- Internet Security and SSL Visibility
- Introducing SSL Orchestrator and its role in network security
- SSL Orchestrator Placement on the Network
- Platform and Licensing Requirements
- Overview of Internet Security Model
- Understanding Certificate Use
- Managing Certificates on SSL Orchestrator (BIG-IP)
- Inbound and outbound inspection
- Cipher diversity
- Broad topology and inspection device support
- Dynamic service chaining and policy-based traffic steering
- Advanced monitoring
- Dynamic scaling and evaluation
- Reviewing the Landing Page
- Selecting a Topology
- Making SSL Certificate Configurations
- Creating Services and Service Handling
- Constructing a Service Chain
- Building a Security Policy
- Defining an Interception Rule
- Examining Egress settings
- Reviewing the Summary Page and Deployment
- Exploring the SSL Orchestrator Dashboard
- Relationship of devices to services
- Inline layer 2, layer 3 and HTTP inspection services
- ICAP and TAP passive inspection services
- Selecting the appropriate topology
- Benefits and limitations of topologies
- Existing application integration
- Layer 2 virtual wire concepts
- Initial and subsequent forward proxy flow
- Flow and header based signaling
- Access components
- Appropriate naming of service objects
- Authentication
- Tee connector design and flow
- Creating security policies
- Reviewing per-request policy for an outbound topology
- Navigating Visual Policy Editor
- Collecting system information
- Solving traffic flow issues
- Guided Configuration and iAppLX issues
- Troubleshooting with cURL
- Traffic captures with tcpdump
- Cleanup and deleting configurations
- Review BIG-IP High Availability
- SSL Orchestrator High Availability (HA) Requirements
- Installation and Upgrade Cautions
- SSL Orchestrator in Scaled Mode
- Troubleshooting SSL Orchestrator HA
FAQs
A: To attend the training session you should have an operational Desktops or Laptops with required specification along with good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We would always recommend you to attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly and get more value from your investment. However, if due to some contingency if you have to skip the class Radiant Techlearning would help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption and NOT for distribution or any commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing the Virtual Training environment for the purpose of participant’s hand-on-practice. Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the help of remote desktop connection. Radiant virtual labs provides you the flexibility to learn from anywhere in the world and in any time zone.
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them the real world and industry Oriented projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills and knowledge and you will gain better experience. These real time projects, they will help you a lot in your future tasks and assignments.